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AT&T Statement on Department of Justice Action
DALLAS, Aug. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — The following may be attributed to Wayne Watts, AT&T Senior Executive Vice President and General Counsel:
We are surprised and disappointed by today's action, particularly since we have met repeatedly with the Department of Justice and there was no indication from the DOJ that this action was being contemplated.
We plan to ask for an expedited hearing so the enormous benefits of this merger can be fully reviewed. The DOJ has the burden of proving alleged anti-competitive affects and we intend to vigorously contest this matter in court.
At the end of the day, we believe facts will guide any final decision and the facts are clear. This merger will:
- Help solve our nation's spectrum exhaust situation and improve wireless service for millions.
- Allow AT&T to expand 4G LTE mobile broadband to another 55 million Americans, or 97% of the population;
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Election Holiday
11-08-2012On election night, as he was speaking to the crowd assembled at McCormack Place in Chicago, President Barack Obama took a moment to thank "all the people who voted in this election," and, in particular, those "who voted for the first time or waited in line for a very long time. By the way" he added, "we have to fix that."
Although there have been questions over the last few elections cycles about attempts to restrict the franchise, the inefficiency of the process for many of those who do vote is, arguably, a much more important issue; many voters in Ohio, Michigan and Florida waited in line for an hour or more yesterday before actually being able to cast their ballots.
This wait, which is simply annoying for some, makes voting onerous for others—while few people left voting lines once they entered them, it is certainly a possibility that some saw the lines outside the polling place and chose not to queue up at all.
Although many states, states as diverse as Illinois and Texas, have chosen to combat this electoral gridlock by offering some form of early voting and while both Washington and Oregon conduct their elections exclusively by mail, the fact that these methods spread thin both the place and the time of the election means that they mitigate even the illusion that act of voting is a public one and that the election itself is the decision making process of a community. Samuel Goldman offers a slightly different solution: "make the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November a federal holiday."
He explains:
Most of the practical obstacles to voting are rooted in the fact that Tuesdays are workdays. If more citizens had the day off, they'd have less need of absentee ballots, early voting, extended poll hours, and the rest of the mess.
Declaring Election Day a federal holiday wouldn't force private employers to close for the day. I suspect that many would, however, particularly if Election Day replaced one of the holidays already on the calendar.
The benefits of making Election Day a holiday go beyond access. Doing so would also provide an opportunity for demonstrations, celebrations, protests, and encounters with our neighbors. In the 18th century, elections were the occasion for speeches, feasts, games, and, occasionally, drunken riots. We wouldn't want to bring back the riots. Yet there's no reason that the rest shouldn't become part our public culture again. Independence Day is wonderful. But I'd rather see marching bands leading the way to the polls than to the fireworks.
As it is, voting tends to be limited to the hours before and after the working day, and any celebration of the electoral process is limited to the supporters of successful candidates. Turning the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November into a national holiday, and using that day to come together not only to vote but also to publically encourage the act of voting and to praise the voter, can only serve to involve more people in the American political process.
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Part of Speech: Verb
Meaning: 1. To seep downward through a granular substance or material, as rainwater percolates through the soil. 2. To prepare (coffee) in a percolator.
Notes: The advent of the coffee percolator was almost the downfall of today's word. Because the bubbling coffee in the glass knob on the lid of the percolator attracted so much attention, it was easy to think that the verb percolate means to bubble upwards. No, no, no! The name percolator came from the fact that the boiling water filtered down through the coffee grounds once it reached the top. Now that we make coffee by different means, let's give this verb back its meaning.
In Play: I have always thought that the "trickle-down" theory, the assumption that some of the money accumulated by the wealthy will trickle down to those who actually need it, should be called the Economic Percolation Theory. That would help us keep the meaning straight. The important thing to remember is that the movement is generally a downward filtering action: "Rumors percolating from the president's office have it that we are in for a shake-up at the top."
Word History: Today's word is an adopted daughter from the Latin verb percolare, derived from per- "through" + colare "to strain, filter". Colare comes from colum "a strainer, sieve", the same root that gave us colander via Old Provençal colador "strainer". We don't know how colum came to be in the Latin language, but we do know quite a bit about the prefix. It shows up as a preposition in Sanskrit as pari "around, about, through", in Greek as peri "around, about, beyond", and in the Russian prefix pere- "through," Lithuanian per "through," and German as the prefix ver-. English inherited the O-form, which percolated down to Modern English as for and fore-.
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Birth name Virginia Wynette Pugh Occupation(s) Singer, songwriter Name Tammy Wynette | Instruments Vocals, guitar Role Singer Years active 1966 – 1998 | |
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Tammy Wynette (born Virginia Wynette Pugh; May 5, 1942 – April 6, 1998) was an American country music singer-songwriter and one of country music's best-known artists and biggest-selling female singers.
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- Tammy Wynette in Concert Full Concert
- Childhood and teen years
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Wynette was called the "First Lady of Country Music", and her best-known song, "Stand by Your Man", is one of the best-selling hit singles by a woman in the history of country music. Many of her hits dealt with classic themes of loneliness, divorce, and the difficulties of life and relationships. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Wynette charted 20 No. 1 songs. Along with Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton, she is credited with having defined the role of women in country music during the 1970s.
Wynette's marriage to country music singer George Jones in 1969, which ended in divorce in 1975, created a country music "couple", following the earlier success of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash. Jones and Wynette recorded a sequence of albums and singles that hit the charts throughout the 1970s and early eighties.
Tammy Wynette in Concert (Full Concert)
Childhood and teen years
Tammy Wynette was born Virginia Wynette Pugh near Tremont, Mississippi, the only child of Mildred Faye (née Russell; September 3, 1921 - June 24, 1991) and William Hollice Pugh (June 2, 1916 - February 13, 1943). Wynette's father was a farmer and local musician who died of a brain tumor when Wynette was nine months old. Her mother worked in an office, as a substitute school teacher, as well as on the family farm. After her husband's death, Mildred Pugh left her daughter in the care of her own parents, Thomas Chester Russell, and his wife, Flora, and moved to Memphis to work in a defense plant during World War II. In 1946, Mildred Pugh married Foy Lee, a farmer.
Wynette grew up in her maternal grandparents' home, which had no indoor toilets or running water. She was raised with an aunt, Carolyn Russell, who was only five years older, thus more of a sister than an aunt. As a girl, Wynette taught herself to play a variety of musical instruments that had been left by her deceased father.
Rise to fame
Wynette attended Tremont High School, where she was an all-star basketball player. A month before graduation, several months before her 18th birthday, she wed her first husband, Euple Byrd. He was a construction worker, but had trouble keeping a job, and they moved from place to place several times. Wynette worked as a waitress, a receptionist, and a barmaid, and also in a shoe factory. In 1963, she attended Beauty College in Tupelo, Mississippi, where she learned to be a hairdresser. She continued to renew her cosmetology license every year for the rest of her life – just in case she ever had to go back to a daily job.
She left Euple, her first husband, before the birth of their third daughter. That baby developed spinal meningitis, and Wynette tried to earn extra money by performing at night. Euple did not support her ambition to become a country singer, and, according to Wynette, as she drove away he told her "Dream on, Baby". Years later he appeared at one of her concerts as she was signing autographs and asked for one. She signed it "Dream on, baby." In 1965, Wynette sang on the Country Boy Eddie Show on WBRC-TV in Birmingham, meanwhile working as a hairdresser in Midfield, AL, and this led to performances with Porter Wagoner. In 1966, she moved with her three daughters (Gwen, Tina and Jackie) from Birmingham to Nashville, Tennessee, where she attempted to get a recording contract. After being turned down repeatedly by all of the other record companies, she auditioned for the producer Billy Sherrill. Sherrill was originally reluctant to sign her up, but decided to do so after finding himself in need of a singer for Apartment No. 9. When Sherrill heard Wynette sing it, he was impressed and decided to sign her up to Epic Records in 1966.
1966–79: Breakthrough
Once she was signed to Epic, Sherrill suggested she change her name to make more of an impression. According to her 1979 memoir, Stand by Your Man, during their meeting, Wynette was wearing her long, blonde hair in a ponytail, and Sherrill noted that she reminded him of Debbie Reynolds in the film Tammy and the Bachelor. He suggested "Tammy" as a possible name, so she became Tammy Wynette.
Her first single, "Apartment No. 9" (written by Bobby Austin and Johnny Paycheck), was released in December 1966, and just missed the Top 40 on the Country charts, peaking at No. 44. It was followed by "Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad", which became a big hit, peaking at number three. The song launched a string of Top Ten hits that ran through the end of the '70s, interrupted only by three singles that didn't crack the Top Ten. After "Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad" was a success, "My Elusive Dreams", a duet with David Houston, became her first number one in the summer of 1967, followed by "I Don't Wanna Play House" later that year. "I Don't Wanna Play House" won Wynette a Grammy award in 1967 for Best Female Country Vocal Performance, one of two wins for Wynette in that category.
During 1968 and 1969, Wynette had five number one hits – "Take Me to Your World", "D-I-V-O-R-C-E", "Stand by Your Man" (all 1968), "Singing My Song", and "The Ways to Love a Man" (both 1969). "Stand by Your Man" was reportedly written in the Epic studio in just 15 minutes by Billy Sherrill and Wynette, and was released at a time when the women's rights movement was beginning to stir in the U.S. The message in the song stated that a woman should stay with her man, despite his faults and shortcomings. It stirred up controversy and was criticized initially, and it became a lightning rod for feminists. Nevertheless, the song became very successful, reaching the top spot on the Country charts, and was also a Top 20 pop hit, peaking at No. 19 on the Billboard pop charts in 1968, Wynette's only Top 40 hit as a solo artist on the pop charts. In 1969, Wynette won the Grammy award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for "Stand by Your Man", which is now, according to critics, considered a "classic" or Country music "standard". She earned a Gold record (awarded for albums selling in excess of 500,000 copies) for Tammy's Greatest Hits which was certified in 1970 by the RIAA. The album would later be awarded Platinum record status (awarded for albums selling in excess of 1,000,000 copies) in June 1989. In 1970, director Bob Rafelson used a number of her songs in the soundtrack of his 1970 film Five Easy Pieces.
During the early 1970s, Wynette, along with singer Loretta Lynn, ruled the country charts and was one of the most successful female vocalists of the genre. During the early 1970s, number one singles included "He Loves Me All the Way" "Run Woman, Run" and "The Wonders You Perform" (all from 1970), "Good Lovin' (Makes it Right)", "Bedtime Story" (both 1971) "My Man (Understands)", "'Til I Get it Right" (1972), and "Kids Say the Darndest Things" (1973). One of them, "The Wonders You Perform", was a hit in Italy in 1971, thanks to Ornella Vanoni, who recorded the song in an Italian version, "Domani è un altro giorno" ("Tomorrow is another day"). Concurrent to her solo success, a number of her duets with Jones reached the top ten on the U.S. country singles charts during this time, including "The Ceremony" (1972), "We're Gonna Hold On" (1973), and "Golden Ring" (1976). In 1968, Wynette became the second female vocalist to win the Country Music Association Awards' "Female Vocalist of the Year" award, later winning an additional two other times (1969, 1970). For nearly two decades, Wynette held the record for most consecutive wins, until 1987 when Reba McEntire won the award for the fourth consecutive time.
Tammy Wynette divorced her second husband, Don Chapel in 1968. Tammy married George Jones on February 16, 1969 in Ringgold, Georgia. They were married for six years, until their divorce, which was finalized on March 21, 1975. Even after their 1975 divorce (due largely to Jones' alcoholism), their professional collaboration continued with regularity through 1980; years later in 1995, they made a reunion album entitled One. It was well received, although it didn't achieve their earlier chart success. Jones and Wynette had one daughter together, Tamala Georgette, born in 1970. Georgette Jones has, in recent years, become a successful country music artist who frequently pays tribute to her mother at her shows.
In 1976, after having her public divorce from Jones the previous year, Wynette recorded, "'Til I Can Make It on My Own". Often said by music critics to be about her break-up from Jones and moving on with her life, the song reached No. 1 on the U.S. country singles charts, and No. 84 on the pop singles charts, becoming her first single in three years to enter the pop charts. Often considered to be one of her signature songs, it more or less helped Wynette's career after her divorce, showing she could remain popular. It was recorded two years later as a duet by Kenny Rogers and Dottie West, whose version reached No. 3 on the country singles charts in 1979. In 1976, Wynette had another No. 1 as a solo artist, "You and Me", which became her final No. 1 as a solo artist. Her last No. 1 came as a duet with George Jones in early 1977 titled, "Near You".
Following 1976, Wynette's popularity slightly slowed, however, she continued to reach the Top 10 until the end of the decade, with such hits as "Let's Get Together (One Last Time), "One of a Kind" (both 1977), "Womanhood" (1978) "No One Else in this World" and "They Call It Makin' Love" (both 1979). She had a total of 20 number one hits on the U.S. country singles charts (16 solo, three with Jones, and one with Houston). Along with Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Barbara Mandrell, Dottie West, and Lynn Anderson, she helped redefine the role and place of female country singers.
1980–1990: Career in the 1980s
In 1981, a TV movie about Wynette's life was aired called Stand by Your Man, which was based on her memoir of the same title. Actress Annette O'Toole portrayed Wynette in the film. Beginning in the early 1980s, however, her chart success began to wane, though, she did continue to have top-20 hits during this period, including "Starting Over" and "He Was There (When I Needed You)" (both 1980), a cover of the Everly Brothers' hit "Crying in the Rain" (1981), "Another Chance", "You Still Get to Me in My Dreams" (both 1982) and "A Good Night's Love" (1983). A 1985 cover of the '70s Dan Hill hit "Sometimes When We Touch", performed with Mark Grey, reached No. 6 in 1985.
In 1982 she recorded a track with The Ray Conniff Singers, a rendition of "Delta Dawn", in order to be included in the Conniff's duets album "The Nashville Connection", but ultimately the track didn't enter. Meanwhile, her medical problems continued, including inflammations of her bile duct. In 1986, she acted on the CBS TV soap opera Capitol, playing beautician/singer Darlene Stankowski. In 1988, she filed for bankruptcy as a result of a bad investment in two Florida shopping centers.
Wynette's 1987 album Higher Ground featured a neotraditional country sound and was both a critical and relative commercial success. The album featured contributions from Larry Gatlin, Vince Gill, Ricky Van Shelton, Rodney Crowell, Ricky Skaggs, Emmylou Harris and The O'Kanes. Two of the singles released from the album, "Your Love" and "Talkin' to Myself Again", reached the top 20 on the U.S. country singles charts; a third single, "Beneath a Painted Sky" (featuring duet vocals from Emmylou Harris) reached No. 25 in early 1988 (it would ultimately be Tammy Wynette's final top-40 country single).
1990–1998: Final years
In 1990, Heart Over Mind was released and showed that Wynette's popularity on radio was declining. The album yielded no Top 40 Country hits, although numerous singles were released between 1990 and 1991, including a duet with Randy Travis titled, "We're Strangers Again".
She recorded a song with the British group The KLF in late 1991 titled "Justified and Ancient (Stand by the JAMs)", which became a No. 1 hit in eighteen countries the following year, and reached No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. The song gave Wynette a new following, and was her highest-charting single on the Billboard Pop charts. In the video, scrolling electronic titles said that "Miss Tammy Wynette is the first lady of country music" and listed a number of her accomplishments in the recording industry. Wynette appeared in the video wearing a crown and seated on a throne.
In 1992, future First Lady Hillary Clinton said during a 60 Minutes interview either "I'm not sitting here as some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette". or "I'm not sitting here like some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette". (The end of this quotation has also appeared as "some little woman, standing by my man and baking cookies, like Tammy Wynette." However, the reference to cookie baking more likely comes from an unrelated remark by Hillary Clinton: "I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession which I entered before my husband was in public life.") The remark set off a firestorm of controversy. Wynette wrote to Clinton, saying, "With all that is in me, I resent your caustic remark. I believe you have offended every true country-music fan and every person who has made it on their own with no one to take them to the White House." Clinton then called to apologize after she saw the large negative reaction she received, and asked Wynette to perform at a fundraiser. Wynette agreed to do so.
The 1993 album Honky Tonk Angels gave her a chance to record with Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn for the first time; though yielding no hit singles (mainstream country radio had long since stopped playing artists approaching or over 50), the album did well on the country charts and even reached number 42 on the Billboard Pop chart. The one single that was released from the album, a cover of "Silver Threads and Golden Needles" peaked outside the Country Top 40 in 1993. The following year, she released Without Walls, a collection of duets with a number of country, pop and rock and roll performers, including Wynonna Judd, Elton John, Lyle Lovett, Aaron Neville, Smokey Robinson, Sting and a number of others. An album cut titled "Girl Thang", a duet with Wynonna Judd, reached No. 64 in 1994, but no singles were released from this album. She also appeared as a celebrity contestant on Wheel of Fortune during that same year.
Wynette also designed and sold her own line of jewelry in the 1990s. In 1995, she and George Jones recorded their first new duet album in fifteen years titled, One, which spawned a single of the same name. The single was the duo's first music video together. They last performed together in 1997 at Lanierland Music Park.
She recorded a cover version of The Beach Boys' "In My Room", a duet with Brian Wilson, for the group's 1996 comeback album Stars and Stripes Vol.1. The track was held back for a proposed second volume, which never appeared, but Wynette's performance is included in the TV documentary Beach Boys: Nashville Sounds. Wynette lent her vocals on the UK No. 1 hit Perfect Day in 1997, which was written by Lou Reed.
Wynette was also the voice for the character Tilly Hill (Hank Hill's mother) on the animated series King of the Hill until her death. Actress K Callan took over the voice role.
She appeared as herself in the Married... with Children episode "The Juggs Have Left The Building", which originally aired on December 1, 1996.
Wynette was married five times: to Euple Byrd (married April 1960 – divorced 1966), had three daughters; to Don Chapel, born Lloyd Franklin Amburgey (m. 1967 – annulled 1968); to George Jones (m. February 16, 1969 – divorced March 21, 1975); to Michael Tomlin (m. July 18, 1976 – a. September 1976) 44 days; and to singer-songwriter George Richey (m. July 6, 1978 – her death April 6, 1998). Richey was her manager throughout much of the 1980s. Wynette was once linked romantically with actor Burt Reynolds and they were good friends up to Wynette's sudden death.
Wynette had three children with Byrd; she gave birth to two daughters by the time she was 20. Gwendolyn Lee ("Gwen") Byrd (born April 15, 1961), Jacquelyn Faye ("Jackie") Byrd (born August 2, 1962) and Tina Denise Byrd (born March 27, 1965). According to Tammy's autobiography Stand by Your Man, Tina was born three months prematurely, and spent her first three months in an incubator. Tina weighed an estimated two pounds at birth. She was not quite five pounds when she arrived home at three months old, and Tina was home for only three weeks when a relative whom Tammy lived with at the time said "Every time I try to pick her up, she screams in pain and I think it's her back." Tina was diagnosed with spinal meningitis, and was given a slim chance to live through it. Tina spent two and a half weeks in an isolation room and finally after seventeen days was taken off the quarantine list. Tina spent seven weeks in the hospital overcoming all odds. All the doctors, nurses everyone in the hospital called her the "Miracle Baby". Tina, in 1975, is featured on one of Jones and Wynette's duet albums, George and Tammy and Tina. She appeared on two songs "The Telephone Call" with George and "No Charge" with her mom, Tammy.
Wynette also had a daughter with George Jones, Tamala Georgette Jones (born October 5, 1970), who is also a country singer; Georgette worked as a registered nurse for 17 years. She currently keeps her Nurses license renewed yearly just as her mom did with her Beauty Operator's license. Georgette has released a few successful albums. Georgette's 2010 debut album Slightly Used Woman, Strong Enough To Cry and in 2013, she released a tribute album to her mother, Til I Can Make It on My Own, featuring some of her mother's biggest songs "Til I Can Make It on My Own" which Wynette, Billy Sherrill, and Richey wrote, and "Stand by Your Man" written by Wynette and Sherrill that became Tammy's signature song. George Jones legally adopted Tammy's oldest daughters Gwen, Jackie and Tina shortly after Jones and Wynette got married.
Health problems
Wynette had many serious physical ailments beginning in the 1970s. She had at least 26 major surgeries during her lifetime. Although some of these problems were often very serious, Wynette was still able to pursue her singing career and regularly toured to promote her work. In October 1970 after giving birth to Georgette, Wynette had an appendectomy and a hysterectomy. Complications from the hysterectomy included adhesions which later formed into keloids. She developed a chronic inflammation of the bile ducts and was intermittently hospitalized, from 1970 until her death on April 6, 1998. During her brief marriage to Michael Tomlin, she was in hospital for half of their time together as a couple, including surgeries on her gallbladder, kidney and on the nodules on her throat.
Wynette also developed a serious addiction to painkiller medication in the 1980s, which became quite a problem in her life during that time. However, in 1986, she sought help entering the Betty Ford Center for drug treatment that year. In spite of the time away for treatment, she joined the cast of the CBS defunct soap opera Capitol on March 25, 1986, playing the role of a hair stylist-turned-singer, Darlene Stankowski.
Just after Christmas 1993, Wynette woke up in the middle of the night with severe pains and was rushed to The Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, where she lay five days in a coma caused by a bile duct infection. After she survived, she had to undergo yet another operation, an intestinal bypass. She resumed touring not long after. Pamela Lansden of People quoted Wynette's personal spin on life's tribulations as "The sad part about happy endings is there's nothing to write about."
Wynette's last concert was given on March 5, 1998, stepping in for Loretta Lynn, who was ill at the time. Wynette's last television appearance was on the TNN series Prime Time Country on March 9, 1998, performing "Stand by Your Man" and "Take Me to Your World". Wynette's last Grand Ole Opry appearance was on May 17, 1997; she performed "Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad" which was her first top five hit, and "Stand by Your Man" her No. 1 song and signature song, and her first single "Apartment #9" which had gone to No. 44 on the Billboard Country Charts but had become a classic to her loyal fan base and to Country Music. Lorrie Morgan and Jan Howard, appeared on the Opry too, helping Tammy out; Tammy was one of Lorrie's idols growing up (also friends) and Jan, another one of Tammy's close friends, also had a successful career in Country and Western music during the 1960s.
After years of medical problems, numerous hospitalizations, approximately 15 major operations and an addiction to large doses of pain medication, Wynette died while sleeping on her couch on April 6, 1998, at 55 years old. Wynette's doctor from Pennsylvania said she died of a blood clot in her lung. Despite her persistent illnesses, she continued to perform until shortly before her death and had other performances scheduled.
A public memorial service, attended by about 1,500 people, was held at Nashville's historic Ryman Auditorium on April 9, 1998. A private grave-side service had been held earlier with a crypt entombment at Nashville's Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery. Her death solicited commentary such as that of songwriter Bill Mack, quoted in the Dallas Morning News that she was a "class act" and "irreplaceable" and that "She never knew a flat note." Lee Ann Womack was quoted also; she said of Wynette, whose songs often evoked strength and controlled passion, "You knew she knew what she was singing about. You can put her records on and listen and learn so much." Wynette was survived by her husband George Richey, four daughters and eight grandchildren.
In April 1999, her body was exhumed from her crypt in an attempt to settle a dispute over how the country music legend died. A new autopsy was conducted on her a week after three of her daughters filed a wrongful death lawsuit against her doctor and her husband/manager, George Richey, claiming they were responsible for her death 12 months earlier. The coroner declared that she died of a cardiac arrhythmia. In May 1999, George Richey was dropped from the wrongful death lawsuit because he was preparing to sue them for frivolous litigation. Wynette's daughter, Jackie Daly, sold her story to Star magazine before asking Richey himself the "questions" she wanted answered about her mother's death. Richey was never personally asked these questions; the daughters sought solace in the press to garner these intimate personal details of their mother. Wynette was reinterred in the Woodlawn Cross Mausoleum, at Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Nashville, Tennessee. She rests in the same Nashville cemetery as other country music luminaries as former husband, George Jones who died in April 2013, Webb Pierce, Jerry Reed, Marty Robbins, Bobby Russell, Porter Wagoner, Red Foley and Eddy Arnold, among many others.
In March 2012, the name on Wynette's tomb was changed from "Tammy Wynette" to "Virginia W Richardson", her final legal married name. In March 2014, the name on the tomb was changed back.
Tammy Wynette is considered by numerous music critics from Allmusic and Rolling Stone to be one of the greatest and most influential female singers in country music history. Many other female country singers have been influenced by Wynette, including Sara Evans, Faith Hill, and Lee Ann Womack. In 1998, following Wynette's death, she was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, one of the highest honors of her career. A special CD collection titled Tammy Wynette: Collector's Edition was released in 1998, that included Wynette's signature "Stand by Your Man", which even charted outside the Top 40 on the Country charts that year.
Wynette's signature song "Stand by Your Man" has been covered by both men and women alike. Fellow country singers, including Lynn Anderson, Dottie West, Loretta Lynn, Elton John and Lyle Lovett have covered the song, as well as rock bands, including Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Lemmy of Motörhead with Wendy O. Williams of The Plasmatics, Martina McBride covered Wynette's 1976, "'Til I Can Make It on My Own" for her 2005, Timeless album, which was a cover album of Country music standards. It was covered comedically in the 1980 film "The Blues Brothers". "Stand by Your Man" placed at No. 48 on RIAA's 1997 list of Songs of the Century, which consisted of the 300 of their considered-to-be greatest and best-known songs of the twentieth century.
The musical Stand by Your Man: The Tammy Wynette Story, which premiered at the Ryman Auditorium in 2001 and later toured, is a biographical treatment of Wynette's life and music, and features several songs recorded by Wynette and/or George Jones.
In 2002, she was ranked No. 2 on CMT's 40 Greatest Women of Country Music. Patsy Cline was ranked No. 1 (one of Wynette's biggest inspirations) and at No. 3 was fellow Country star, Loretta Lynn. Wynette's former husband, George Jones was ranked No. 3 on CMT's special 40 Greatest Men of Country Music in 2003.
In 2003, a survey of country music writers, producers and stars listed "Stand by Your Man" as the top country song of all time. Country Music Television broadcast a special for the top 100 songs, with the No. 1 song performed by Martina McBride.
Judson Baptist Church, which neighbors Wynette's house, purchased the house and land, which belonged to Hank Williams before he died, for a little over a million dollars. The Wynette house is used as a Youth Center as well as a guest house.
In April 2008, the CD Stand by Your Man – The Best of Tammy Wynette, released by Sony BMG to mark the 10th anniversary of her death, entered the UK Official Album chart at number 23.
In April 2011, Wynette's 1968 original recording of "Stand by Your Man" was selected by the U.S. Library of Congress to be preserved as one of that year's 25 recordings chosen for their cultural significance.
In 2010, the Germany-based independent record label Bear Family Records released a box set by George Jones, which showcased his recordings for Musicor and included the earliest duets with Wynette.
A group of friends and volunteers are currently planning a Tammy Wynette Museum in Tremont, Mississippi. The State of Mississippi will provide part of the funding. There are also efforts to produce a Tammy Wynette stamp through the US Postal Service.
In popular culture
One of Tammy's last appearances was on the animated TV series King of the hill as Hank Hill's Mother Tilly. After Tammy's death she was replaced by Beth Grant and later K Gallen.


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(in the world, Karol Wojtyła)
Supreme Pontiff
On Saturday, 2 April 2005, upon entering the Lord's Day, the Octave of Easter and Divine Mercy Sunday, the Lord called to Himself, from the Vatican Apostolic Palace, the Holy Father John Paul II.
The Servant of God, a Man who lived an intense life of prayer, a tireless Pastor of the universal Church and courageous Witness of the Gospel of Christ, entrusting himself completely to God's will and to the Virgin; Mary, confirmed in his vast and rich Magisterium the centrality of the Mystery of the Eucharist in the life of the Church. He indicated to every baptized person each one's primary commitment to holiness, defined as the "high standard of ordinary Christian living".
At the moment of his death, with the impressive explosion of his fame of holiness which he already enjoyed while alive, and with the formal request to begin the Cause of Beatification and Canonization of the Servant of God, in making it known to the Ecclesial Community, we invite each and every one of the faithful to communicate with us directly or through the Diocesan Tribunal of the Vicariate of Rome (Piazza S. Giovanni in Laterano, 6 - 00184 ROMA) any information that could be favourable or contrary to the fame of holiness of the abovementioned Servant of God.
Furthermore, having to collect, according to the legal provisions, all of the writings attributed to him, with the present EDICT we order those persons who have such writings to consign to the said Tribunal, without delay, any writing whose author is the Servant of God, if it has not yet been consigned to the Postulation of the Cause.
We remind you that the term "writings" does not just mean the printed works which have already been collected, but any manuscripts, diaries, letters and every other personal writing of the Servant of God. Those who wish to keep the original may present a duly certified copy.
In conclusion, we decree that the present EDICT will be displayed for two months on the doors of the Vicariate of Rome, as well as at the Curia of Krakow. It will be published in the "Rivista Diocesana" of Rome and in the daily newspapers of "L'Osservatore Romano" and "Avvenire".
Given in Rome, from the See of the Vicariate, 18 May 2005
Cardinal CAMILLO RUINI
Vicar General
Giuseppe Gobbi
Taken from:
L'Osservatore Romano
Weekly Edition in English
1 June 2005, page 1
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Leaving aside a DNF at Assen that wasn't his fault (courtesy of Alvaro Bautista), what was Jorge Lorenzo's worst finish in the 17 MotoGP races held so far this year? Second place. That tells the whole story. Taking 6 wins, Lorenzo was incredibly consistent. Consistently fast.
This is the young Spaniard's second MotoGP crown, and with the retirement of Casey Stoner this may be just the beginning of a career that could eventually match those of some of the all-time greats. At just 25 years of age, Lorenzo already has 23 MotoGP wins and 60 podiums.
Speaking of all-time greats, Valentino Rossi will return to Yamaha as a teammate of Lorenzo's next year. Lorenzo was not intimidated by Rossi in the past, so we doubt this will change things much. Lorenzo is the man to beat for the foreseeable future.


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Saturday, August 30, 2008
1985 Topps
I'm not entirely sure what possessed me to buy this pack. Back when I was in middle school, one of the neighborhood kids traded me the entire 1985 Topps set, minus the "good cards" which at the time seemed to include the usual rookies (Clemens, Puckett, even Gooden) and the entire Olympic subset. Along with one of those snazzy Topps binders, I got all those cards for virtually nothing, and to this day I have at least the entire Cardinals team set and plenty of extras. So there was no real reason for me to buy this, yet I bought it anyway, perhaps being caught up in Olympic fever and thinking I might finally get a McGwire rookie card (or at least a Cory Snyder or Shawn Abner.)
So let's check the results here. I have to warn you- it's pretty blah.
639 - Ed Hodge
624 - Benny Ayala
325 - John Denny
786 - Enos Cabell (yeah, nothing even scan-worthy so far...)
369 - R.J. Reynolds
133 - Ray Boone / Bob Boone Father - Son (a fine baseball family that would go on to include Bret and Aaron)
470 - Steve Sax
576 - Jamie Cocanower (if you had asked me a simple true/false question as to whether "Jamie Cocanower" was the name of an actual major league player, I would have responded with a resounding "no!")
-Instant Win insert (woo! 4 runs!)
40 - Phil Niekro (here's where the gettin's finally good. a Knuckle Brother!)
80 - Keith Hernandez ("Mex" in the pre-Just For Men days)
239 - Tim Teufel
596 - Jerry Hairston (original version)
774 - Dennis Lamp (truly a target for literally-interpreted altered cards, like they used to have pictures of in old Beckett magazines. I'm picturing a table lamp throwing a heater.)
684 - Bill Doran (I hate all things Astros right now)
611 - Ozzie Virgil (the requisite vintage gum stain)
Ah yes, and don't forget the main attraction: 1 STICK BUBBLE GUM. 23 years old, broken, but still not beaten... refusing to die.
2 comments:
- Steve Gierman said...
Not too bad. Any card from that set is OK in my book.
I'll be the first to say it this time.
I love lamp. - 12:17 PM
- Unknown said...
i have a SCHMIDT, BUCKNER. SANDBERG IN PACKAGE WITH GUM. WHO WILL BUY IT?
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December 13th, 2019
The Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation (OSSTF) has announced that on Wednesday, December 18, 2019, their members will engage in a full withdrawal of services (strike action) in selected boards where OSSTF is represented across the province unless an agreement is reached at the central bargaining table. Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) has been included in the list of Boards where withdrawal of services is to occur.
In WRDSB, OSSTF represents secondary school teachers as well as a number of other education workers. Education workers include our school secretaries, custodial and maintenance staff that work in all of our elementary and secondary schools, and our Education Centre and include the following groups: Secondary Teachers and Occasional Teachers (TBU), Custodial and Maintenance (CAMA), Educational Support Staff (ESS), Professional Student Services Personnel (PSSP), Supervision Monitors and Cafeteria Assistants (SMACA).
These education workers are critical to the safety and well-being of our students and the daily operations of all of our schools. As such, we have determined that we cannot ensure the safety of our students at schools during this particular one-day (1-day) strike action.
In the event of a one-day strike, on December 18, 2019:
ALL SCHOOLS, both elementary and secondary, will be closed to students.
ALL before and after school childcare programs, extended day childcare programs, Early ON Centres and third-party operated childcare centres will close.
ALL extracurricular activities scheduled for December 18, 2019, will be cancelled as will all evening rental permits.
All schools will reopen and resume their regular routines on Thursday, December 19, 2019.
At this time, no other job action has been announced by OSSTF or the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario (ETFO). We will continue to monitor the labour situation and will provide updates as they become available. We remain hopeful that an agreement is reached and that our schools will be open to our students on Wednesday, December 18, 2019.
As changes to job action can happen at any time, it is important to stay tuned and stay informed in the event that the one-day full withdrawal of service is cancelled. For information updates please:
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We understand that job action is frustrating for families, students and staff. Thank you for your patience and understanding during this time.
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Order "Rogue Descendant" HERE
Read An Excerpt HERE
Rogue Descendant, published at the end of
April, is the third of Jenna Black's latest urban fantasy
series (she's written a few, all worth checking out), the Nikki Glass or Descendant
series. This is one of those world-building structures
where Greek mythology features heavily, though there are some other cool
mythologies as well. Essentially, the gods have descendants, and if a mortal
descendant kills an immortal one, they gain immortality and some magical powers
related to whatever deity they're descended from. How our protagonist came by
her seed of immortality is part of the matter of book one, Dark Descendant, but the fact of the matter is that all unwanted, Nikki has to learn how to live in the
world she's joined and with the powers she inherited from Artemis. Unfortunately,
while she's beginning to deal with the former, there is no movement on the
bothers me. In book one, of course Nikki
wouldn't know how to use her powers; she was too busy trying to survive to
start exploring them. Book two rolls around and that no longer holds up; when
her approach in book three is still pretty much, "Oh, I feel like we
should turn this way for no apparent reason IT MUST BE MY HUNTING POWERS," I
have suspension of disbelief problems. In fairness, Nikki seems to find this ridiculous as well, but she doesn't seem
inclined to do anything about it. She
can come up with ways for other characters
to explore their power, but her own she ignores until she needs it and then
vainly wishes it worked better. Possibly a comment on human nature, but I find
it tiring.
also no net movement on the romance front —
it's still well-handled, but it leaves off in pretty much the same place as the
last book. I can deal with that, though. What concerns me is that the climax of
all three books has involved a final confrontation with Nikki and Anderson, the
head of their non-Olympian-descended-exclusive band who is not the love
interest, against an external threat, and now this book has been dropping hints
that we are going to have a love triangle on our hands, and I hate love triangles.
excepting the fact that all the immortal characters seem to be easily swayed by
circumstantial evidence when they're supposed to be experienced enough with
Byzantine plots to know better, they do all behave in horribly logical and
often twisted ways given what they did know and who they were. Konstantin's son is a refreshingly
complicated sort-of-villain, and the lingering problem of Emma has been resolved. In theory. Jenna Black is great with character consistency and emotional
responses to traumatic events, be they personally painful or physically, that
really resonate as true. It must be said that Nikki is very inventive about not relying on magic or immortality
to save her, and understanding her limits makes scenes a lot tenser than they
would be if she knew how to use her magic and depended on it. I burned through
this book, which is always a good sign.
And yet,
I'm disappointed in this installment. Rogue
Descendant wasn't painful to read by any stretch, but there's no character
growth, no romance development, no exploration of the protagonist's abilities, and
no particularly revealing information about the world. I feel like this whole
book was in order to set-up the characters' huge problems in the next book. It's
very plot-centric, and I want more from a story than just events unfolding.
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Which Windows virtual machines can be upgraded to Windows 8.1?
Important: This article describes how to upgrade an existing Windows virtual machine to Windows 8.1; if you want to install Windows 8 from scratch, please see: KB 4729.
You can upgrade to Windows 8.1 from Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows XP, but depending on which operating system you're upgrading from, you might not be able to keep all of your files, applications and settings.
The following table shows what you have the option of keeping during an upgrade:
When upgrading from | You can keep |
Windows 7 | Personal files. You'll need to reinstall your programs after you upgrade to Windows 8.1 |
Windows Vista | Nothing. You won't be able to keep any files, settings, or programs when you upgrade to Windows 8.1. Make sure to backup your data prior to upgrading. |
Windows XP | Nothing. You won't be able to keep any files, settings, or programs when you upgrade to Windows 8.1. Make sure to backup your data prior to upgrading. |
Windows 8 | Your files, desktop apps, user accounts, and settings come with you. |
Important: If you create installation media to install Windows 8.1, and then start your virtual machine from that media and install Windows 8.1, you won't be able to keep your previous files, programs, or settings. To keep files, programs, or settings you must install Windows 8.1 by starting the installation from within your current version of Windows.
What should I do before upgrading my virtual machine to Windows 8/8.1?
- Make sure you're using the latest version of Parallels Desktop. Go to Parallels Desktop menu > Check for Updates, and if a new update is available, follow the onscreen instructions to install it.
- It is strongly recommended that you backup your virtual machine before upgrading to Windows 8/8.1. See KB 4859 to learn about backup options. How to backup virtual machines http://kb.parallels.com/4859
- Switch your virtual machine to the Windowed View Mode. If your virtual machine is running in Coherence mode, simply right-click the Windows Start menu icon and choose Exit Coherence, or click on the Parallels icon in the menu bar at the top of the screen and choose Exit Coherence.
My virtual machine is ready to be upgraded. What should I do next?
Get Windows 8/8.1. from Microsoft.
- Run the downloaded file and follow the onscreen instructions. On the first screen, choose whether you want to keep your Windows settings, personal files, and apps. All options might not be available; see the compatibility table at the beginning of this article.
- The next screen lets you buy Windows 8/8.1:
You see your Windows 8/8.1 product key on the next screen. It is also sent to your email. Click Next to proceed to the download.
- Wait as Windows 8/8.1 is downloaded.
- On the next screen, you're given three options to install Windows 8/8.1: Install Now, Install by creating media, and Install later from your desktop. If you want to save your applications, be sure to choose Install now. Choosing Install by creating media will not give you an opportunity to keep files, programs and applications.
- On the next screen, accept the Microsoft Software License Agreement:
- Click Install.
- You're almost there. Personalize Windows 8/8.1 on the next screen. If you don't see the Personalization screen below, your Windows 8/8.1 virtual machine is in Coherence mode. You may switch it to the Windows view mode by right-clicking the Windows Start menu icon and choosing Exit Coherence or by clicking the Parallels icon in the menu bar at the top of the screen and choosing Exit Coherence.
- And now your Windows 8/8.1 virtual machine is ready for use! Don't forget to install Parallels Tools if your Windows programs were not transfered during the Windows 8/8.1 upgrade. (Click Virtual Machine menu > Install Parallels Tools)


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16 MINUTES: Serrano-Lime Chicken Fajitas
Serves 4
Serving tip: Set out bowls of salsa, sour cream, guacamole, minced scallions, and diced tomatoes to top these flavorful fajitas.
30 MINUTES: Chiles Rellenos and Bean Casserole
Serves 10
Prep tip: If you can get fresh roasted green chiles, they're an excellent choice. Serving tip: Accompany with corn tortillas or serve over rice.
35 MINUTES: Spinach and Onion "Enchiladas"
Serves 6
Prep tip: In the morning, put the package of frozen spinach in the sink to defrost.
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From the Summer 2011 journal.
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The Battle of Williamsburg, Va. May 5th 1862. General George McClellan appears on the battlefield in Williamsburg. Lithograph by Currier & Ives.
Kearney at Battle of Williamsburg, 1862. The one-armed Philip Kearney road into battle with his sword in hand and reins in his teeth. Black ink wash by Alfred R. Waud.
Sketch of the Battlefield and Confederate Works in Front of Williamsburg, VA. May 5, 1862, by Lt. M.D. McAlester, Chief Engineer 3rd Corps, Army of the Potomac. Published in 1876.
The Union cavalry and artillery starting in pursuit of the rebels up the Yorktown turnpike. Sketched by Mr. W. Homer. Harper's Weekly, May 17, 1862.
The first day's firing at Yorktown, April 1862. Sketched by an officer of the Topographical Engineers. Published in Harper's Weekly.
The Army of the Potomac arriving at Yorktown from Williamsburg. Published in Harper's Weekly.


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You know we usually reserve our pizza nights for Friday evenings, but I shifted it to tonight as tomorrow is bound to be a wacky day with the moving truck being loaded and us getting ready to leave for Charlotte Saturday morning. I figured the simpler the better with this pie and when Jeff brought home a bunch of gorgeous arugula he saw at the farmers' market, I knew exactly what I was going to make - Roasted Red Pepper Pizzas with Arugula.
With our favorite, no nonsense whole-wheat pizza dough making up the crusty base (I went the 12 ounce route this time, but for extra thickness you could bump it up to the pound recipe), we split the bubbly risen dough in half, then stretched each out as thin as we could. Rather than using a tomato-based sauce, these pizzas are smeared with an unpretentious purée of roasted red peppers, modestly seasoned with salt and fresh ground black pepper. Roast your own bell peppers if you like, but I went the convenience route and used a jarred pepper that we drained well and seeded.
On top of each blushing red slick, we piled on thin slices of fresh mozzarella and since these were going to be quite clean, we then drizzled over a touch of fruity extra-virgin olive oil. I do recommend leaving a solid border around the edge, free from any sauce or cheese while assembling - as the pepper purée heats and the cheese melts, they will both expand and if you have that edge, you won't need to worry about messy spillovers.
I baked these pizzas one at a time, taking full advantage of the fiery hot baking stone we keep in the oven, but you could certainly transfer both to a large baking sheet and bake them at the same time. As the first came off the stone, we topped the gooey cheese with torn fresh basil leaves and the peppery arugula we found at the market. We didn't add the arugula on its own though as we dressed it with oil, salt and pepper first, then served the pizza wedges with a slice of lemon to squirt over the top for an acidic bite.
I did add the basil to the hot second pizza, but left the arugula for this one undressed and in a separate container. We plan to tear into the second tomorrow for lunch, adding the arugula when serving to keep its freshness.
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William Friedkin's top-notch policier The French Connection set the bar eternally high for both the cop film and the action film. With its deathless car chase, Friedkin's film became an instant American classic (and Academy-awarded Best Picture), but the scene is only the first of two climaxes arising from over an hour of investigatory tension. The finale is likewise memorable, a simultaneously realistic and surrealistic, objective and subjective depiction of the frustration of the career detective.
Adapted by Oscar-winning screenwriter Ernest Tidyman from Robin Moore's 1969 non-fiction book The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy, Friedkin's film is surprisingly accurate to the real-life investigation, if not in every detail (the invented car chase, in particular), then certainly in spirit. Friedkin cast several real NYPD employees (including the real cops who broke the case, Eddie Egan and Sonny Grasso), vitally shot on location (in Marseilles and Washington D.C. as well as Brooklyn), and hewed closely to his research and the advice of ever-present consultants Egan and Grasso. Gene Hackman won the Best Actor Oscar for his uncompromising portrayal of Egan surrogate Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle; Roy Scheider proves equally good as Grasso stand-in Buddy Russo. Doyle and Russo of the New York Narcotics Bureau follow one of Doyle's much-maligned hunches and uncover "the French connection" piping drugs into New York: the elusive Alain Charnier (Fernando Rey).
Only a few years after the end of the Hays Production Code, The French Connection was part of a new wave in American cinema. Gritty, sexy, violent, and profane, Oscar-winning Friedkin's take-no-prisoners style subverted the politeness of preceding decades. We first see Popeye, on the streets of Brooklyn, wearing a Santa suit and breaking out into a full-bore run after a perp. Friedkin drew out of Hackman a wholly original character, a cop who is outwardly flippant but ultimately dead serious, obsessively so, about getting his man. The police partners trash-talk to each other in authentic dialect (that includes casual racial slurs) and demonstrate advanced surveillance and tailing techniques in lengthy passages that accurately convey the long-haul work of real detectives. With the line "You ever pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?" Hackman immortalized Egan's intentionally confusing interrogation technique. The only detail not 100% convincing is the red, red kroovy of '70s cinema.
The whole film is, of course, a chase, wearing down shoe leather and tire treads. The foot chases are thrilling, but the pulse-pounding car chase (designed to top the San Francisco car chase from producer Phil D'Antoni's Bullitt), as Popeye races an el train, remains downright amazing, including as it does at least one actual accident owing to Friedkin's reckless run-and-gun style of shooting. Director of photography Owen Roizman, Oscar-winning editor Jerry Greenberg, and composer Don Ellis (with his innovative jazz score) make invaluable contributions to the film's effect. Friedkin's genius extends all the way into the film's closing moments, when an off-camera gunshot lends an enigmatic aspect underscoring the obsession and frustration of unfulfilled detection.
The French Connection, a catalog perennial for Fox, created something of a public relations snafu in 2009, when director William Friedkin supervised its initial Blu-ray release. The color timing was widely decried by film purists and also (whoops) by cinematographer Owen Roizman, who shot the picture in the first place. That initial hi-def release also had some color bleeding and halo effects that blotted the otherwise sharp and film-like image, but it was the color that presented the biggest problem, despite Friedkin's own approval of the new image. Now re-released as a part of Fox's Filmmakers Signature Series, The French Connection gets a new transfer jointly approved by Friedkin and Roizman. While the telecine scan appears to be the same as the previous release (which is fine, as it is excellent, with film grain happily preserved), the color timing of the new release has swung dramatically back in the direction of the original release prints. Deep black level and improved contrast underpin a more clear, less "blown-out" image, and while the color scheme has been pushed into a bluish-green area, there's nothing egregious here: it's a handsome picture that should mollify purists. Sound remains definitive, with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Dolby Digital surround and original mono options.
The below descriptions refer to the bonus features on the original two-disc Blu-ray set. The new one-disc Filmmakers Signature Series release maintains most of them on the single platter. Lost are the excellent hour-long doc "Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing The French Connection" and, for obvious reasons, the "William Friedkin Introduction" and the "Color Timing The French Connection" segment that refer to the previous transfer.
In the first of several brand-new Blu-ray exclusives, we get a "William Friedkin Introduction" (1:16, HD).
There's a commentary by Friedkin, always a fascinating listen, and a non-screen-specific commentary by Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider. The latter offers twenty-five minutes of warm recollections from Hackman, an odd half an hour of silence, then another 25 minutes with Scheider, an enthuiastic storyteller. Also included one disc one are a pop-up trivia track and isolated score track.
Disc two begins with a historically important collection of "Deleted Scenes with Optional Commentary by William Friedkin" (11:37, HD). They come with a new introduction by Friedkin, in which he explains the grainy, washed out 16mm reel was created from a 35mm source. Getting more of Hackman as Popeye Doyle is a great gift, I'm sure you'll agree, and there's some brilliant material here.
In "Anatomy of a Chase" (20:20, HD), Friedkin gregariously shows us around the locations on which the famous chase sequence was shot. Early on, Friedkin joins his producer Phil D'Antoni, interviews him, and then takes him on the rest of the tour, including a ride in a brown 1970 Pontiac with Detective Randy Jurgensen.
"Hackman on Doyle" (10:49, HD) and "Friedkin and Grosso Remember the Real French Connection" (19:12, HD) are terrific interviews revealing details and impressions from the major players behind the finished film; in the latter, Friedkin interviews Grosso, keeping the focus on the retired detective.
In "Scene of the Crime" (5:14, HD) Friedkin and Jurgensen discuss, with the Brooklyn Bridge as a backdrop, shooting on the New York monument.
"Color Timing The French Connection" (13:15, HD) finds Friedkin at Post Logic, discussing the Blu-ray transfer with color timer Bryan McMahan.
In "Cop Jazz: The Music of Don Ellis" (10:04, HD), film music historian Jon Burlingame deconstructs Ellis' score and its effect.
"Rogue Cop: The Noir Connection" (13:47, HD) film historians Alain Silver and James Ursini provide critical analysis comparing The French Connection to the "rogue cop" genre within the noir tradition.
The great 2000 BBC documentary "Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing The French Connection" (53:37, SD) recaps the criminal case and the creation of the film, getting frank responses from its subjects. Interviewees include Grosso, Friedkin, Jurgensen, Scheider, Hackman, sound recordist Chris Newman, DP Owen Roizman, assistant director Terry Donnelly, D'Antoni, former heads of production for Fox Richard Zanuck and David Brown, Tony Lo Bianco, and editor Gerald B. Greenberg.
The 2001 Fox Movie Channel doc "Making the Connection: The French Connection 30th Anniversary Special" (56:33, SD) is hosted by Sonny Grosso, who interviews Friedkin, N.Y. Supreme Court Judge Torres, Lo Bianco, actress Lora Mitchell, Hackman, Scheider, D'Antoni, Zanuck, author Robin Moore, Roizman, Brown, Greenberg. Eddie Egan appears in vintage clips.
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Three Diet Musts for a Healthy Pregnancy
Women can eat well for two without going to extremes.
Feb. 4, 2011— -- When it comes to diet during pregnancy, opinions vary from "everything you put in your mouth matters" to "just try to eat healthy."
As usual, the truth probably lies somewhere in between.
"A lot of the pregnancy books, I think, swing too much into telling you every single thing you need to eat, and act as if indiscretions are poisonous, which really isn't true," said Dr. Marjorie Greenfield, chief of obstetrics and gynecology at University Hospitals Case Medical Center.
But there are three things that every woman who's pregnant -- or planning to be -- should know.
Women should start taking a folic acid supplement -- 400 mg every day -- at least three months before they want to become pregnant to minimize the risk of nervous system birth defects, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Eating foods naturally high in folate like leafy greens and beans, and fortified foods like whole grain bread and rice, can help keep moms and babies nourished throughout pregnancy.
For more about vitamins during pregnancy, visit the March of Dimes website.
Mercury can interfere with normal brain development, so women should avoid foods that contain mercury, such as certain types of fish, during pregnancy and leading up to it, Greenfield said.
"People can say, 'I just won't eat any fish during pregnancy,' but unfortunately there are other things in fish that are actually really, really good for the developing brain," Greenfield said.
Avoid fish high in mercury, such as king mackerel, tilefish, swordfish and shark, but keep other types of fish and shellfish, such as cooked shrimp, salmon and tuna, on the table.
Learn more about mercury-containing foods by visiting the FDA website.
Maintain a Healthy Weight
As babies grow, so do moms. But gaining too much weight during pregnancy can be risky for both parties.
"Babies can be extra big, labor can be extra hard and gestational diabetes is more likely," Greenfield said. "Plus, it's hard to get the weight off afterwards, and excess weight gain in pregnancy may be contributing to the epidemic of obesity in our country."
But how much weight gain is appropriate depends on the woman and the baby.
"Talk to your doctor or midwife about weight gain, because it depends on your starting weight and eating habits," Greenfield said.
On top of getting enough folic acid, limiting mercury and maintaining a healthy weight, pregnant women should drink six to eight glasses of water a day, avoid alcohol and eat from all five food groups. The CDC recommends six to 11 servings of grain products, three to five servings of vegetables, two to four servings of fruits, four to six servings of milk and milk products, and three to four servings of meat and protein foods every day.


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Kitchen Visit: Julie's Light-Filled Eat-In Corner Calgary, Canada
We love it too! Read on to see more of Julie's kitchen, hear about where she sourced those countertops (science labs were involved!) and to see more of the little touches that make this kitchen such a lovely place to cook.
Kitchen Q&A
1. What's your cooking style?
Casual, experimental. I like to cook as well as bake but meals tend to be the one-dish variety (pad Thai, lentil soup, pizza, chili over a baked potato) rather than meat, starch and veg. Although we're carnivores, we eat more legumes than red meat. I've been a messy cook since I was a kid – I can't seem to shake it. And I can't follow a recipe to the letter.
Although I'm a butter enthusiast, I am fairly health-conscious – I lost 165 pounds (about half my weight) by learning how to make all my favourite foods healthier, and with less fat, so I generally tweak recipes to make them a little better for us. I sneak ground flax into a lot of things – I've totally turned into my dad, who in the 80s snuck oat bran into everything.
2. What inspires your kitchen?
People. Whether they are in the kitchen with me or just visiting via my blog, food just connects people like nothing else does. I do love to have a house overflowing with people though – totally casually – crammed into the nook, nibbling food straight out of the oven or pot, spilling out onto the patio.
I'd have to say hunger is also very inspiring. I have also been a (very willing) dumping ground as of late for peoples' old collections of cooking magazines, which I've found a lot of inspiration in. I'm always interested in what other people eat – the late Laurie Colwin once wrote something along the lines of, "It isn't just the great works of mankind that make a culture, it's the small things, like what we eat every day and how we prepare it." I'm always mindful of the role food plays in our daily lives.
3. What is your favorite kitchen tool or element?
I love the nook; the table was in my friend Allison's grandmother's house for her lifetime, and is now bolted down to my floor. I also really love my windows, and sink, although I do miss having a garborator.
I couldn't live without spatulas, my microplane grater and hand-held immersion blender, but my absolute favourite kitchen tools are my Grandma's metal measuring cups, one which was actually repaired by my Grandad. Who does that anymore? And her pastry cutter, and handwritten recipes on cards and paper scraps, which I keep meaning to get framed. I also have a digestive tract made out of sequins (it's art).
4. Best cooking advice or tip you ever received:
Clean as you go. It's advice I don't necessarily follow. In a conversation with Barbara Kingsolver (I was chatting with her for a story) she pointed out that people have a very juvenile approach to deciding what's for dinner – people tend to ponder what they're in the mood for, rather than what they already have and what's in season. So I do try to approach my mealtime decisions that way – really, most people have enough stashed in their pantries to live off for weeks! and I hate wasting food.
5. Biggest challenge in your kitchen:
Navigating a 3-year-old and a 90-pound dog, both constantly underfoot. Of course that's part of the charm of it, but tonight while making dinner, my 3-year-old sawed through the edge of the countertop at 1-inch intervals with the serrated edge of the barbecue flipper, then fed a $16 chunk of Parmesan to the dog. It's also sometimes tough to wash splatters off the subway-style tile on the backsplash, but I love it.
6. Biggest indulgence:
Maple syrup from Quebec, really good cheese, Bernard Callebaut chocolate (it's not the same as just plain Callebaut chocolate!), locally raised bison and lamb.
7. Dream tool or splurge:
I really REALLY need a new oven. The one here is electric, and I need to go gas. But the one I want is quite expensive, and things like a new washer and dryer, furnace, roof repair, and car repairs keep taking precedence! I'd also love to install a wood-burning oven in the back yard. And a trip to Paris, please. And Italy, while I'm over there. In the name of research?
8. What are you cooking this week?
I'm really into baby spinach sauteed in olive oil with garlic this week. Once the spinach is wilted I crack an egg into the oily puddle and cook it over easy, then sprinkle the lot with Maldon salt and eat with toasted crusty no-knead bread, buttered of course. For breakfast every morning I've been having porridge made with half oatmeal, half barley flakes – you can't tell the difference, flavour-wise, and the barley just makes it slightly chewier, which I love. And barley has more than 3 times the fiber of oats!
I'm also working my way through a batch of black bean soup, and earlier in the week I made a rhubarb-chilie marinated pork tenderloin over noodles, inspired by a recipe in Jamie Oliver at Home (one of the most beautiful cookbooks I've seen) for a radio show, and it was so well received (even at 8 in the morning) I am totally making it again for us.
I've also made panini, frittata, maple-rosemary pork ribs and coconut cream cake. This weekend I have my heart set on a pan of Katharine Hepburn's brownies. Maybe I'll make my grandma's brownie recipe too, and do a taste test. Just, you know, for research purposes.
9. What cookbook has inspired you the most?
That's a tough one – there are so many great cookbooks out there! I'd have to say in terms of inspiration, the original Canadian Living Cookbook with the blue cover was my very first cookbook that was all mine, and I learned to make a lot of things out of it. It still has the best basic cheesecake recipe.
I'm also a huge fan of Laurie Colwin's books – Home Cooking and More Home Cooking, which aren't cookbooks per se, but do have recipes scattered through. I can read them over and over, and they always make me happy. Molly Wizenberg's new book A Homemade Life is doing the same thing. I love that both include the connection between life and recipes.
10. What's the most memorable meal you've ever cooked in this kitchen?
I figured out how to make corn dogs and mini donuts one summer and was a superhero to all who attended our party – it was high summer, so all the windows were open, and everyone came and went in a perfect stream.. We had a big tub of drinks on ice outside, people hung out on the patio and in the yard under our apple tree filled with white Christmas lights, and the corn dogs and mini donuts never had a chance to cool down – I stood by the oven and chatted and sent out piles of corn dogs on paper-towel-lined platters, and people ate the mini donuts straight out of the dish of cinnamon sugar.
Then my 10-year-old niece and I started deep frying everything we could find – mini chocolate bars, marshmallows (all dipped in corn batter) – all which looked roughly the same once battered and fried. It certainly wasn't the healthiest nor classiest meal, but it was memorable.
Favorite Kitchen Resources & Features
I love that most elements of the kitchen have been salvaged.
• The old window over the stove, the sink, the wooden countertops that came from the old University of Calgary science lab – who knows how many frogs were dissected on them before I started using them to roll out cookie dough? It was renovated before we bought it by friends of ours – he's a world renowned architect, she an artist, and they did a great job!
• The table in our corner booth is from my friend's grandmother's kitchen (she used to own the house). It is always jammed with friends/family/kids.
• And my oven is an old GE workhorse.. my fridge is a KitchenAid passed down from my parents… my food processor is a basic/classic Cuisinart – a brand I'm very loyal to in the food processor department! There truly is no better in my books!
• It has open shelving, which I love – it means the charming old glass Mason jars of beans go up there and the Doritos get hidden in the bottom cupboards.
• The sink and old brass tap fixtures (which drip incessantly but I love them too much to get rid of them) were salvaged from an old farmhouse.
• The windows open up to the patio outside, so during the summer we don't feel like we're separated from the rest of the party when we're in the kitchen – people just spill in and out.
One day my 3-year-old and I were sitting in the nook eating breakfast, watching the sparrows outside eating their breakfast from the bird feeder, when a hawk swooped down and grabbed one of them, then devoured it on the roof of the playhouse (guess he was having his breakfast).
It's a great kitchen!
We agree! Thank you so much for sharing your kitchen, Julie.
• Visit Julie's website! Dinner With Julie
• Try a recipe from Julie: Sesame Noodles with Pork, Peppered Popcorn with Parmesan, or Creamy Coconut Cake…
(Images: Julie Van Rosendaal)


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Everyday Market Bag
Look stylish while you tote around your groceries or pack away the essentials for a group picnic with this Everyday Market Bag. This crochet pattern is easy to make and perfect for the person on the go. You can make this adorable crocheted bag in any color you'd like so you always have a fun purse to take with you.
Learn how to crochet a bag that's great for beachgoers and anyone who is heading off to the farmers market on a warm summer day. This simple crochet bag pattern is also great for new mommies - you can throw in all of your baby's essentials and carry them in style.
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- 4 balls Bernat® Handicrafter Cotton (50 g/1.75 oz; 73 m/80 yds) yarn in Hot Green
- 5 mm (U.S. H or 8) crochet hook, or size needed to obtain gauge
Measurements: Approx 20 ins [51 cm] long excluding handles.
Gauge: 13 sc and 14 rows = 4 ins [10 cm].
- Ch(s) = Chain(s)
- rep = repeat
- sc = single crochet
- Sl st = Slip stitch
- st(s) = stitch(es)
- tr = treble crochet
- tr3tog = Treble crochet 3 together - *(Yarn over) twice, insert hook in next stitch and draw up a loop, (yarn over and draw through 2 loops on hook) twice; repeat from * 2 more times, yarn over and draw through all 4 loops on hook.
- Yoh = yarn over the hook
Ch 39.
1st row: (RS). 1 sc in 2nd ch from hook. 1 sc in each ch to end of ch. 38 sc. Turn.
2nd to 4th rows: Ch 1. 1 sc in each sc to end of row. Turn.
1st row: Ch 7 (counts as tr and ch 3). (Yoh) twice. Draw up a loop in next st. (Yoh and draw through 2 loops on hook) twice. Yoh and draw through all loops on hook. *Ch 5. [(Yoh) twice. Draw up a loop in next st. (Yoh and draw through 2 loops on hook) twice] twice. Yoh and draw through all 3 loops on hook – tr2tog made. Rep from * to last sc. Ch 3. 1 tr in last sc. Turn.
2nd row: Ch 5 (counts as tr and ch 1). Miss next 3 ch. Tr in next st. *Ch 5. (Yoh) twice. Draw up a loop in same st as before. (Yoh and draw through 2 loops on hook) twice. Miss next 5-ch sp. (Yoh) twice. Draw up a loop in next st. (Yoh and draw through 2 loops on hook) twice. Yoh and draw through all 3 loops on hook – tr2tog over 2 sts made. Rep from * to last tr. Tr2tog over last st worked and next tr. Turn.
3rd row: Ch 7 (counts as tr and ch 3). Tr2tog over first st and next tr2tog. *Ch 5. Tr2tog over st just worked and next tr2tog. Rep from * to last tr. Ch 3. 1 tr in 4th ch of ch 5. Turn.
Rep 2nd and 3rd rows until work from beg measures approx 20 ins [51 cm], ending with 3rd row.
Next row: Ch 1. 1 sc in first st. *2 sc in next ch-5 sp. Rep from * to turning ch 7. 1 sc in ch-7 sp. 1 sc in 4th ch of ch 7. Turn.
Next 3 rows: Ch 1. 1 sc in each sc to end of row. Turn. Fasten off at end of last row.
With RS of work facing join yarn with sl st to top left corner of Bag. Ch 1. Work 30 sc evenly across side of Bag. Turn.
Next row: Ch 57 (handle). 1 sc in 2nd ch from hook. 1 sc in each of next 55 ch. 1 sc in each sc to end of row. Turn. 86 sc in total.
Next 2 rows: Ch 1. 1 sc in each sc to end of row. Turn.
Fasten off at end of last row, leaving a long end. Sew end of handle in position.
Rep for other side.
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bethsweesull 72453 98
Jun 26, 2016
I adore this bag. Took less than one skein of Bernat Maker Home Dec. Plan on making more.
Jun 27, 2016
@bethsweesull 72453 98 thanks for sharing your photo! It looks great. Let us know if you have any tips and tricks for completing this project. I'd love to add them to the page. -Kaylee, Editor of FaveCrafts
Mar 02, 2017
I really like the picture of your bag. Did you use just one strand of the Bernat at one time? I am wondering if the original pattern calls for using a double strand. Maybe that is why it says that it requires 4 balls of yarn. In any case, how sturdy is the bag? Enough for heavy fruits like apples and bananas? I'd like to get to making one of these right away!
candicesweet 47843 21
May 21, 2014
The patten at bernat site is better. For additional help, see https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110 == 806195104AApBAA3. There's a great explanation about bernat pattern and how to interpret the () and [ ]. I was ready to give up on this till I found yahoo answers.
Mar 04, 2014
I have attempted to follow the directions and it is impossible. I have modified the pattern to "look" the same as the picture still using the triple stitch and trip 2 together. But instead of the ch5 I have done ch3 to make the bag pattern work with the triangle effect. Also, I added a dbl decker look. If I can I will post a picture.
rhiwiemers 5852644
Dec 12, 2013
Did you know you can make these bag out of the plastic bags you get. Just cut them into 1inch strips tie ends together and crochet. No yarn needed, they are very strong, last along time, don't stretch out and environmental friendly. Can be used with most patterns.
dmtjulia 5632564
Mar 07, 2016
I have made several "plarn" shopping bags and I love them, get lots of compliments and it's a good way to make people aware of the plastic problem. But if anyone wants to make plarn they should look up a tutorial online. If you just try to cut the plastic into strips you will go nuts. There are 3 methods for making plarn and they go pretty fast.
mary andreatta
Aug 10, 2013
Is this the full pattern or only half the pattern because a lot of people are having issues and I am also having issues. Does anyone have the full correct pattern thank you so much
JoanCrochetsAndBak es
Jun 18, 2013
There is definitely something wrong with these instructions. Does the author mean for the project to be FOLDED after fastening off and before starting handle? From the starting of the handle the instructions do not make sense. However, the mesh portion is very stable because the design makes little triangles. I have taken this part of the instruction, and used it with instructions for a String Bag. The String Bag instructions originally came from Lily. The mesh resulting from that pattern was not stable unless the yarn was used double-strand. My updated string bag with the "triangle" mesh seems to work well.
meatpies0707 85718 66
May 13, 2013
I have figured out what this person meant by the tr2tog. Try this. Chain 7, (which counts as 1 tr and ch 3. YO twice (as you would any other tr stitch) and draw up a loop in next stitch. (4 loops on hook now) YO, work two loops. (3 loops on hook now.) YO, DRAW UP LOOP IN NEXT STITCH (5 loops on hook) YO, work off two loops, YO work off two loops, YO work off last 3 loops. What is in capitals is what is missing from the pattern.
meatpies0707 85718 66
May 13, 2013
I am also working on developing an easier pattern that will produce the same bag.
Jul 17, 2013
Thank you for figuring it out for the rest of us. I'd love to have your reworked instructions when you complete them. I'll attempt this one now that I have your corrections to work with. I was disappointed to see other reviewers problems so didn't even try before.
Member 1657443
Apr 26, 2013
I love this bag but I'm having a problem with the instruction. Can any one help please. email@example.com
Debbie Clements
Mar 08, 2013
I have done a huge amount of crochet stitches and projects and this is the worst one yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bernat your patterns suck.
nicoledenisesmith 2703143
Jan 05, 2013
I made some of these a few years ago in white then my 11 year old and I tie dyed them. Great project, and these bags expand to hold so much stuff. I get a lot of compliments!
kbeebe 9630020
Dec 27, 2012
This pattern is not working for me either. It would be helpful to know if I should have the same number of loops after 20 inches as when I started. It keeps getting wider.
Dec 25, 2012
Kan je mij soms zeggen hoe je dat maakt in het Nederlands ik kan geen Engels
May 12, 2012
I must be making this harder than it is. If I understand correctly - the pattern goes from the top of one side to the top of the other side. ? My apologies, I am on a mission - I have to conquer this. I refuse to be beaten by an everyday market bag! lol
May 12, 2012
Is anyone ever going to correct the instructions for the Everyday Marketbag?
helenakieser 91120 45
Feb 26, 2012
this is an amazing pattern BUT you need the right yarn take a good look at the picture this pattern starts from the top of the one side (back or front) right around and end with the top of the other side (back or front)
siobhan021156 3449 429
Feb 19, 2012
Also if you contact Bernat, they never get back to you. I wrote them 2 weeks ago and they never got back to me. I had trouble with their Trapper Hat pattern and the worst thing about it was the fact that you're supposed to get the whole project done w/ 2 balls of yarn. Not! I would think 3 or 4 balls would do it.
homemade in iowa
Jun 10, 2011
This pattern really does seem to be missing some critical information. This is the first Bernat pattern I've come accross that is so confusing and they have it rated as an easy! I've given up and will look for a pattern that makes some sense.
Dianne Meere
Apr 09, 2011
I have years of crochet experience and I found this pattern to be quite confusing. The cotton loops looked sloppy and it was very difficult to maintain proper tension. I gave up after 3 good hearted attemps
abrown27 2003920
Apr 05, 2011
I need help with this pattern. The first four rows are the bottom of the bag. br Then the insructions start again with Rows 1, 2, 3. The end of each row says to "turn". So this is my question, is the bag crocheted one side at a time and then stitched together, or is it crochet in the round?br Thank you,br
helenakieser 91120 45
Feb 26, 2012
hello abrown the first 4 rows are the top of the bag (front or back side)
Jan 25, 2010
check out Bernat's site for pattern or contact them for assistance. They are very helpful. Good luck
Jan 24, 2010
I really don't understand this pattern. In row 1 (after the first 4 rows) it states "(Yoh) twice. Draw up a loop in next st. (Yoh and draw through 2 loops on hook) twice." this is not clear (but i figured this part out) then, at the end of row 2, it states "Tr2tog over last st worked and next tr. " but there is no chain before this, so it does not look like the other end. Please let me know if I am just not getting this or if there is a correction needed. thanks
helenakieser 91120 45
Feb 26, 2012
hi brisny the pattern is correct you just have to make 100% certain that your your stitch count is correct from the very beginning it does look a bit 'not right' until your second repitition fo the pattern
Jan 24, 2010
Perhaps this could be added to "Go Green" sites. Save your plastic bags, cut them in strips to use instead of yarn. Adjust pattern as needed.
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Your business name will be forever tied to the identity of your brand. Done right, and you'll have a company that's instantly memorable, distinctive, and unique. Done wrong, and you'll be stuck with a name that will be tough to shake.
So, how do you come up with a business name that succinctly captures the qualities that makes your business so special and unique?
Know your business's mission.
Before you can come up with a worthy name, you must first have clarity about your business's purpose, its target market, and the image you want to create for it. A mission statement is a perfect place to start. The right mission statement can describe your philosophy, your culture, and your outlook on the world.
Here are five excellent examples:
- Uber: "We ignite opportunity by setting the world in motion."
- Kickstarter: "To help bring creative projects to life."
- Life is Good: "Spreading the power of optimism."
- TED: "Spread ideas."
- Wawa: "Fulfilling lives every day."
Once your mission statement is established, a business concept statement or business plan can help flesh out the details.
Start brainstorming.
At the brainstorming stage, your goal is to think of as many business names as possible, so don't rule anything out just yet. Inspiration can come from friends, family, books, websites, magazines, and TV shows—you name it. As you brainstorm, keep these questions in mind:
- What emotion do you want your business name to convey? An old-fashioned business, such as an ice cream parlor or candy store, could benefit from a longer, nostalgic name with terms like "Emporium" or "Vintage." Consumer-oriented tech companies often try to "warm-up" their products or services with short, simple names like Slack or Twitch. Business-to-business products or services tend to have straightforward names, such as Salesforce or QuickBooks.
- Is shorter better? Customers today are busy and swamped with information, which is one reason that short, simple business names like Uber and Etsy are popular. These names are easy to read at a glance, and they stand out because they're unusual, which makes them memorable.
- Do you have a regional or local advantage? Some cities or parts of the country have a certain cachet—for example, artisanal foods from Brooklyn, craft beers from Portland, or barbecue sauce from Memphis. If it fits your business, consider incorporating your locale into your business name. Think Boston Market or Nantucket Nectars.
- Are you thinking ahead? Make sure your business name isn't too narrowly focused—otherwise, as your company grows and you begin to add new products and services, you might have to change your name entirely. Your business name should be specific enough to convey what you sell now, but also include room for growth.
- How does it look? How will the business name translate to a logo, and how will that logo (and name) look online? In today's increasingly visual world, your business logo needs to be readable in all sizes—from a 10-foot-wide store sign to a thumbnail on your Twitter feed.
Test it out.
Narrow down your list by putting the names through the wringer. Use these tests to ensure name viability:
- Is the business name easy to say?
- Is the business name easy to spell?
- Does the business name mean anything silly, insulting, or offensive in another language (or even in English)?
- Is the business name confusing when typed in all lowercase, like in the URL of a website, for example?
- Is the business name similar enough to any of your competitors' names that it could legitimately confuse, spark accusations of copying or land you in court?
- Is the business name trademarked? Do a trademark search at uspto.gov to make sure.
- Is a website domain available for the business name? A search for "domain names" will uncover many sites where you can search for registered domains. To see if someone already owns the domain, just type in the business name you're considering. If it is owned by someone else, the site will suggest alternatives or even offer to broker a purchase. Your domain name doesn't have to be the same as your business name, but it should be close enough that people can easily identify it.
Get feedback.
Once you have a few names you like, get other people's opinions. Consider holding a focus group of prospective customers in your target market, either in person or via an online or social media poll. Ask them what they think this business does, what kinds of people they think would buy from this business, and what feeling this business name gives them.
Naming your business is one of the most important steps you can take toward building an identity for your brand. Don't do it alone! If your business is still in its formative stages and you're getting ready to give it a name, reach out to a SCORE mentor for help. Our experienced mentors can help you find a business name that resonates with your target audiences and helps you stand out in the marketplace.
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